Full Freeview on the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmitter which serves 97,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Redruth (Cornwall, England) mast?
Redruth transmitter - Redruth transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels 
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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Redruth (Cornwall, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Redruth transmitter broadcast?
If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Redruth (Cornwall, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Redruth transmitter?
BBC Spotlight 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL3 5BD, 82km east-northeast (78°)
to BBC South West region - 107 masts.
ITV West Country News (West) 0.8m homes 2.9%
from Plymouth PL7 5BQ, 89km east (79°)
to ITV West Country region - 107 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
| Coverack | Transposer | 15 km S Falmouth | 70 homes |
How will the Redruth (Cornwall, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 1 May 2019 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | K T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C32 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C33 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C48 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ArqB | |||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 8 Jul 09 and 5 Aug 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-15.2dB) 3kW | |
| Mux D* | (-16.6dB) 2.2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-18dB) 1.6kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Redruth transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldMonday, 10 January 2011
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Mrs K Guest2:42 PM
Can't get BBC1 BBC2 ITV1 & CH4 - the BBC website says that Pendeen Relay station is off air from 13.21 today - how long is this
likely to last for, please?
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Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Mrs K Guest: I'm not sure what you mean by "Pendeen Relay"?
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Wednesday, 26 January 2011
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Arnold Mooney6:49 PM
I'm in Falmouth and pick up a signal from Redruth at the back of my house and Caradon in the front. Today I noticed that Film 4 was missing on the channel list from the Redruth transmitter, so retuned my Humax PVR and now I have NO commercial channels at all. Caradon is perfect. Can someone tell me what is going on please.
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Arnold Mooney: There have been no changes to the transmitters, so I would have a look at Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Thursday, 3 February 2011
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Mrs Care2:34 PM
My televisions have started cutting out (sound & picture) and showing a 'No signal' message; this is happening to my neighbour too. Is there a problem with the transmitter
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Bob Hayes6:17 PM
The Redruth transmitter has been playing up all afternoon with constant drop-outs. They used to pop up an apology for the disruption to service in the old days - is this beyond today's technology or what? If it wasn't for the fact I'm having problems on two different sets with two different aerials I'd likely have called out an engineer by now.
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Bob Hayes: Any transmitter problems are reported online. It is not technically possible to "pop up an apology".
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Bob Hayes7:11 PM
thanks for this, I thought that might be the case, but where should I look for this online? When I Google it I get this web site as the top option but I can't find any problems reported for this afternoon so I must be looking in the wrong place.
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Bob Hayes: Yes, the only issue reported was "REDRUTH transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 09:10 today to 11:04 today [BBC]".
If you put your postcode into the box at the top right, there will be a box shown that has links to the various places to look.
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